manner

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1. 1.The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful,manner. Atterbury.
2. 2.Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style. Specifically: (a) Customary method of acting; habit. Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them. Acts xvii.
3. 3.Air and manner are more expressive than words. Richardson. (b) pl. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well- bred carriage and address. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Emerson. (c) The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
4. 4.Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already. The bread is in a manner common. 1 Sam. xxi.5.
5. 5.Sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds. Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs. Luke xi.
6. 6.I bid thee say, What manner of man art thou Coleridge. Note: In old usage, of was often omitted after manner, when employed in this sense. "A manner Latin corrupt was her speech." Chaucer. By any manner of means, in any way possible; by any sort of means. -- To be taken in, or with the manner. Etym: [A corruption of to be taken in the mainor. See Mainor.] To be taken in the very act. [Obs.] See Mainor. -- To make one's manners, to make a bow or courtesy; to offer salutation. -- Manners bit, a portion left in a dish for the sake of good manners. Hallwell. See Method.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is the temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful,manner. Atterbury called?
• What is certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already. The bread is in a manner common. 1 Sam. xxi.5 called?
• What is sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds. Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs. Luke xi called?